Quotes About Delay

Being the one doing something is always so much easier than being the one waiting.

Today is today and tomorrow may come late this year.

I have a rotary phone from the sixties, it take forever to dial, which keeps me from making impulsive calls.

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Before she'd had to deal with it, complaints about the one- to two-second delay before words said on one end trickled into an ear on the other had struck Anna as frivolous. Not so. She was amazed at how seemingly small a thing could cripple conversation.

War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.

There was very little wind as they set out. The battle was unlikely to happen that day.

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

In the end, respiration and burning are equivalent; the slight delay in the middle is what we know as life.

Procrastination is self-induced torture, often void of physical agony. It still hurts.

The longer nature delays in avenging the offenses committed against her, the crueler her vengeance.

He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.

Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Why always "not yet"?  Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? 

I will not feel, I will not feel, until I have to

Frica de reac?ia în întârziere a destinului devine mai nefast? decât chiar confirmarea presim?irilor. Nenorocirea stabilizeaz?, cel pu?in, pentru o vreme, balan?a. Promite un armisti?iu.

?yi ?eyler birdenbire olur; bu kadar bekletmez insan?. Sürüncemede kalan heyecanlardan ancak kötü ?eyler ç?kar. Ya da hiçbir ?ey ç?kmaz.

Beklenen geç geliyor; geldi?i s?rada insan ba?ka yerlerde oluyor

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

La guerra è un infanticidio in massa, rinviato di vent'anni.

Is it painful to be the person who waits? Or is it more painful to be the person who makes others wait? Either way, there's no need to wait anymore. That's what is most painful." - Osamu Dazai